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INKING PAD. APPLICATION FILED JUNE 1. i911;

LQLQZ, PatentedSept. 25,1917.

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EDWARD GRAHAM VVOODY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 25, 1917.

Application filed June 1, 1917. Serial No. 172,256.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD Gr. "WooDY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York, have invented a new and Improved Inking-Pad, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

Among the principal objects which the present invention has in view are; to distribute the ink from a reservoir evenly to a pad having printed characters, and to maintain the dimensions of the exposed surface of the pad.

Drawings.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the pad and holding case therefor, constructed in accordance with the arrangement of the present invention;

Fig. 2 is a cross section of the same showing the cover lid of the case in closed position.

Description.

As seen in the drawings, a box-like case 7 has a hinged lid 8; the case 7 is provided to hold an ink reservoir pad 9; the pad 9 is constructed from a suitable absorbent material which may be saturated with ink for use in the herein described pad.

Entirely covering the pad 9 and filling the case 7 to the exposed edges thereof is a distributing pad 10. The pad 10 in the present instance is constructed from carborundum or other porous mineral, the pores whereof exert a capillary action on the ink or liquid material with which the pad 9 is saturated.

I-Ieretofore inking pads have been constructed wherein a saturated felt pad was placed in a box-like case and loaded with ink and distributed; the covering pad of suitable wood was disposed above in covering relation to the felt pad, the pores of the wood exerted a capillary action on the liquid to convey the liquid to the surface of the covering pad. This form of-inking pad has proved objectionable in that the wood covering pad has expanded and contracted as and in proportion to the saturation to which it has been subjected. This has given rise to objection in that if the wooden pad was initially contracted it swells when saturated, with the result the pad becomes warped and forces the structure of the box and destroys the same; or if the wood is expanded prior to being fitted to the box, as the supply of ink becomes exhausted the pad dries and contracts to only partially fill the box, thereby leaving an unsightly marginal space. The object of the present invention is to overcome the defects in the form of construction for which a Patent No. 695,877 was granted to me the 18th day of March, 1902, to which patent cross reference is here made.

Claim.

An inking pad comprising a containing box-like case, and a reservoir pad disposed in said case, said pad being constructed of material adapted to be saturated with ink ing fluid, and a distributingpad for said reservoir, the pad being adapted to fit said case, said distributing pad constructed of artificially constructed porous mineral.

EDWARD GRAHAM WO ODY.

copies of this patent may be obtained for iive cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G." 

